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THBCloisonné Enamel Cane
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125 West Market Street
Johnson City, TN 37604
United States
Family-owned and family-run Johnson City Tennessee auction business for 25 years. Selling antiques and collectables for 38 years. Kimball M. Sterling, Inc. was founded and is owned by Kimball and Victoria Sterling, time and again, they have laid solid claim to world-wide attention and renown with an...Read more
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TimedFeb 22, 2023 - Mar 12, 2023
Selection of fine canes
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-Ca. 1900 -Long and tapering Shippo enamel handle profusely decorated with flowers in pastel colors on a turquoise background. The slightly domed top itself is emblazoned with a chrysanthemum bud with radiating petals, somehow recalling the Japanese Imperial Chrysanthemum Seal. The handle is executed in the ancient and traditional Far-Eastern love for the detail perfection and distinguishes with a pleasing floral design and refreshing colors. It is fitted with a rarely encountered lemonwood shaft with a brass collar and ferrule. With the great popularity of canes and growing demand for decorative items, walking stick manufacturers of the western world, European as well as American, began to import cane handles and other items from the Orient in the second half of the 19th century. Japan and China were major suppliers for excellent carvings and great metalwork like this cane. -H. 3 ½” x ¾”, O.L. 38 ¾” -$300-$400 -Cloisonné is a way of enameling an object, (typically made of copper) whereby fine wires are used to delineate the decorative areas (cloisons in French, hence cloisonné) into which enamel paste is applied before the object is fired and polished. -The Japanese characters used for the word Shippo (the Japanese term for enamelware) mean “Seven Treasures” which is a reference to the seven treasures mentioned in Buddhist texts. Although these treasures may vary, they generally included at least some of the following: gold, silver, emerald, coral, agate, lapis lazuli, giant clamshell, glass and pearl. The Japanese applied this expression to the rich colors found on Chinese enamel wares and later to those they made themselves.
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